The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-15

says, "ought to entrust such powers to
them When Lord Spencer repeatedly re-
fused to suppress the league no word of re
monStrance emanated from the Liberals 1t
is inconceivable that the Liberals can now
support a measure empowering the execu-
| tive to treat Irish politicians as common
criminals.
ORANGEMEN OMITTED.
I'm 1883 5000 Orangemen on one occasion
disturbed a national league meeting, their
, action leading TO blOodshed and necessitating
the calling out of troops TO preserve the
peace. Col, King Harmon and Mr.. Holmes
actively defended these unwarrantable pro-
ceedings. There is not the slightest doubt
| that III the event of a recurrence of such
action Orangemen would be liable under the
clauses of the present bill to punishment as
criminals, but the government has effec-
lively provided against this contingency by
proposing to enact that the House
of Lords may veto prOclama-
ton by the Lord Lieutenant. The
full weight of this terrible but one-sided
measure is intended to fall and will fall
upon the politicians of one party alone. The
measure will be administered by those who.
beyond all question, are actuated by the
strongest Orange sympatheS, and it is cal
culated to exasperate the people without
serving any useful purpose"
PROTEST RUN AS AN AID.
In the advertising columns of the Daily
NeacS this morning there appeared a protest
against the coercion bill signed by 800 non
conformist ministers.
Mr. Gladstone writes: Il am unaware of
any law to prevent the public discussing the
conduct either of Parliament or Of the
Speaker. II is but just that blame be cast
where it is really due, namely: On the Tory
and diSsident Liberal majority, who forced
through a new rule forcing upon the Speak
or a task impossible for him to perform with
out stirring up resentment and probably inn
pairing the confidence of one side or the
otherH
GLADSTONE CALLED AN INCENDIARY.
Lord Randolph Churchill speaking at
Birmingham tonight said that the govern
ment's Irish measure was a broad and in
telligent Interpretation of the country's
mandate and redemption of the pledges
given by the government in Parliament last
| August. Mr.. Gladstone, he said was trying
| by Parliamentary obstruction and outside
agitation to bring the House of Commons into
| disrepute. He wished TO paralyze and put
an end to the present Parliament, and with
this aim was not scrlIpulOus ar to the means
he employed. He had deliberately prompted
and encouraged movements whose object
was to weaken the authority of the Speaker
| of the House of Commons. A more
perfect picture of a political incendi-
| AIRY than Mr.. Gladstone could not be
| conceived. The Conservatives and union
| lists were compelled by the common danger
| to unite. They were asked to follow a weird
| strange quartette, more fantastic than had
| ever been imagined even by Sir Arthur Sui
| livan, composed of .Messrs Gladstone HaI-
| court, Morley and Parnell Mr. Gladstone
| hoped that the English democracy would
| become weary of the struggle, but he
! (ChurchilD had an abiding faith that the
| democracy would uphold the Union.
UNITED IRELAND's FIRE.
| DUBLIN, April IA United Ireland saws
| that if Irishmen had one chance in ten
| thousand they would transfer the coercion
debate from Parliament to bar1'icades, but
| as that chance does not exist lrishmen can
only set their teeth and hold their tongue.
| The paper adds: "The idea remains to stimuli
| taneOusly summon the whole adult popula-
| ton of Ireland to make one grand historic
protest against the coercion bill, but even
the impressiveness of this would be destroyed
by the misreporting of the English press"
wAsHINGToN's PROTEST.
! WASHINGTON, April IA meeting was
held here this evening in Masonic Temple
| to respond to the printed call, signed in due
| form by the chairman, secretary and com
mittee, to give expression to the protest on
| the part of the American residents and So
| journers at the national capital against the
| passage of the coercion bill for Ireland now
! pending in the British Parliament. The hall
was literally decorated with bunting and
| appropriate notices. The audience was
we'll dressed and orderly, but an enthusiastic
throng filled the hall to its
utmost capacity before the hour
/ fixed for the speaking to begin. The chair
| man of the committee called the meeting TO
order and introduced Congressman Springer,
,r t,, A ~
purpose of the meeting. Mr.. Springer said it
| seemed to him that history was repeating
itself The contest now going on in Great
| Britain in regard to the government Of Ire
| land was i'll many respects similar TO that
! practiced in the American colonies, and it
could not be Inappropriate for Ireland at
| this time to proclaim that immortal declara-
| tion of independence which 115 years ago
| was proclaimed III Philadelphia. He did not
desire to be understood as suggesting to the
Irish at this time that they should pursue
| the course followed 10y our forefathers. Ire
! lands leaders were now seeking peaceful
way out of their difficulties In this great
| contest for liberty and home rule it must
not be assumed that the English people were
q party to the wrong Let the people of
| Ireland preserve their cquanimity, submit
as long as submission was possible, and the
| time would not long be delayed when in his
| opinion, the English people themselves
woriingmen. would right the wrongs of
| Ireland Other speakers were Gen. Rose
Grams, ex-senator NanWyck, Congressman
! Grain Of Texas, Judge GoOlick Of Vir-
ginia, Gen George A. Sheridan and Con
! gresham Shvely of Indiana.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
| Resolutions prepared 10y the committee
! appointed for that purpose were adopted As
| follows:
! WHEREAS. The Tory administration of Eng
| land is about to enact for ireland tyrannical
! COercive measures that will have the effect OF
! abolishing trial by jury, suependin2 the habeas
! corpus act imp@s0p.ag III touest dungeons
| thousands Of innocent people deprived of the
privilege of appeal or redress, Transporting Sus-
| pected persons to an alien country to go through
! the farce of trinl, suppressng the press and
| free speech and, in word of robbing the
people Of Ireland of all those rights which man
| kind holds dear ard civilization demands; be IL
| ResoiUed That We citizens Of the capital of
| the United States, in mass meeting assembled,
| sincerely sympathze with Hon. William Z. Glad
stone and Hon Charles Stewart Parnell in their
| gallant battle against this harbarous coercion
| bill and that we earnestly and Indignantly pro
! test against the passage by the British Parlia-
ment III measure calculated To brlltalilc and en-
slave the people of Ireland
! Resolved That the enactment OF such diaboh-
! cal laws would not alone be- an outrage on the
Irish people, hut crime against the spirit Of lib-
| erty everywhere. aud the trainers and advocates
| of the coercion bill should go down 20 posterity
condemned by humanity and branded with in.
fanny.
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